- Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier people may be thinking of their favorite characters in the same way they would real friends https://news.osu.edu/for-the-lonely-a-blurred-line-between-real-and-fictional-people/ 108 comments technology
- In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is active when thinking about others, a new study found. https://news.osu.edu/for-the-lonely-a-blurred-line-between-real-and-fictional-people/ 533 comments science
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